RE-GRASSING HIGH COUNTRY.
GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENTS. ' The Minister for Agriculture has informed Mr. J. C. Thompson that experiments in regrassing hig'h country were started by the Department in 1909 in tho Mackenzie Country aud Central Otago. Tho experiments so far have Iwcn confined to ascertaining what grasses are adaptable to .the local conditions. Trials are, being made of sc-rao sixty varieties of grasses and other plants. Many have tailed, but others give some promise. As these experiments are only/in tho initial stage, tho Department is ' not yet able to report oiv probable definite results. Arrangements are now being made to proceed with experiments for regrassing a large block on Morven Hills, Central Otago. Replying to a question in the House of Representatives, tho Minister for Agriculture stated that experiments in the growing of sugnr-beet have been made at the Ruakura and Moumahaki Experiment Farms, 'roots being grown in 190G, 1907, and 1908. The yield cf the crop was 22-J tons per acre. Those grown were tested, and, on analysis, yielded up to 17.52 per cent, of sugar content.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1218, 29 August 1911, Page 8
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